Rant #3,963: Tattoo You

Yesterday was a big day for me.

In this seemingly never-ending odyssey to good health, I had something removed from my body that I didn't need anymore, and its removal has put me on the path to being healthy for the first time in months.

It was tortuous, but it was done, and maybe now--with a few things still in my way to total healthiness--I can get back to where I should be, and get my life back.

And as you see above, one of the ways I am trying to get my life back is to root for the Knicks and Yankees, and the Knicks winning the NBA championship was clearly the first step in doing this, and as I told you the other day, I was lucky enough to find a T-shirt that shows where I stand with the team being triumphant during the 2025-2026 season.

T-shirts are probably the easiest way to show your love for something, and is so much better than things like a tattoo to show your pride in your team or cause or whatever.

(Let me interject that i don't understand tattoos to begin with, and would never get one for any reason, but that is just me; my daughter has them, my nephews have them, other relatives of mine have them, but it is your skin, and you can do with it what you want, but it's my skin, and I have no need for them.)

I saw a couple of photos on Facebook about people who have completely gone overboard in their pride of being a Knicks fan--

With tattoos all over their faces signifying their love for this team.

And I mean all over their faces, with some of the tattoos being as big as the basketballs that the Knicks shot and won with.

This is just a game ...

Your body is way more important, and to mess up God's creation with tattoos all over you--and on your face yet--really is sickening.

Yes, these are young people who have not experienced the world yet.

Do they realize that these tattoos are, one day, going to stop them from being taken seriously?

I wouldn't hire someone who is "adorned" this way, and I don't think other people with more authority than I have would, either.

And what happens, heaven forbid, if the Knicks don't win for another 53 years?

By the time these people are in their 70s, that tattoo will look even more ridiculous than it does now.

Their only hope is if tattoo removal becomes commonplace in the next decades, and with so many people with these garish graffiti marks all over them, I think that this probably will happen.

The folly of youth, I guess.

So again, what is better than a T-shirt to demonstrate what team you love?

Put it on, like I did yesterday, take it off, like I did yesterday, wash it and and wear it another day.

A T-shirt isn't permanent; but it demonstrates happiness and fan loyalty.

And it isn't as garish as a ridiculous face tattoo, which can't come off so easily, if at all.

I have T-shirts of my favorite sports teams, concerts I have been to, places I have visited.

And I put them on, and take them off when I am done with them.

Yesterday, I wore a T-shirt that I picked up in Bermuda when my family visited there on one of our cruises.

We had fun there, and when I am done with the shirt, it comes right off, gets washed, and I can wear it again.

You have a tattoo like some of these people are getting, putting it all over their faces ...

Were they high, were they drunk, were they engulfed in Red Bull when they decided to do this?

And the tattoo artists ... I hope they tried to persuade these dolts to not get this done, certainly not on their faces--

But I guess they failed.

Me, I will take my T-shirts over tattoos any time.

The only ink I want to have anything to do with is when I see my work, and/or my name, in print.